Types of materialism
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August 19, 2023 at 1:24 pm #245959LBirdParticipant
I think that anyone interested in this debate about Marx’s epistemological views, will find the article at this link very informative:
“Marx’s epistemology and the problem of conflated idealisms”
August 19, 2023 at 1:26 pm #245960ALBKeymasterThat’s good, TM. So you are a dialectical materialist after all. A poet who didn’t know it. Welcome.
August 19, 2023 at 1:49 pm #245962Thomas_MoreParticipantA ruba’i (plural: rubaiyat)
He was a poet who didn’t know it,
A materialist not quite with it,
Reliant on the old rather than new,
and to some an argumentative git.- This reply was modified 1 year, 4 months ago by Thomas_More.
August 19, 2023 at 2:19 pm #245964LewParticipantI think that anyone interested in this debate about Marx’s epistemological views, will find the article at this link very informative:
“Marx’s epistemology and the problem of conflated idealisms”
It is to be noted that in what purports to be an analysis of Marx’s theory of knowledge there is only one citation from Marx, a fleeting reference to “uncritical idealism”. The article is based on what the author, and various other commentators, thought Marx meant. Regular readers of this forum, and LBird’s regular pronouncement on this topic, will recognise the methodology.
August 19, 2023 at 2:27 pm #245965Thomas_MoreParticipantSome very funny bits in here:
August 19, 2023 at 3:23 pm #245969AnonymousInactivehttps://mailstrom.blogspot.com/2007/04/joseph-dietzgen-workers-philosopher.html
In other discussions we have cited Dietzgen. He is the real founder of the concept of dialectical materialism, it was not George Plekhanov
August 19, 2023 at 3:37 pm #245971AnonymousInactiveRichard Dawkins, and Neil DeGrase Tyson are atheists but they support capitalism and bourgeois liberalism. Marx indicated that the critique to the economic system is the critique of religion and the critique of religion is the critique of the economic system
August 19, 2023 at 4:44 pm #245974Thomas_MoreParticipantYes. I have left a comment on that.
Party members should leave comments. Even if Dawkins doesn’t see them, others watching the video(s) will.August 19, 2023 at 5:31 pm #245976AnonymousInactiveYes. I have left a comment on that.
Party members should leave comments. Even if Dawkins doesn’t see them, others watching the video(s) will.Our pamphlet: Socialism and religion describes this type of atheist, and they do not understand that religion had a materialistic origin and some of them are part of an economic system
PS: There is a Spanish version of this wonderful pamphlet written by the Socialist Party
August 19, 2023 at 5:40 pm #245978Thomas_MoreParticipantI know. Tell it them then.
I wrote to Carl Sagan in 1988 about socialism. He didn’t reply, but I wrote, and I think it’s important to do so.
And what Dawkins should be looking at, rather than at the stupidity of creationists, is WHY are people still choosing such paths.
August 19, 2023 at 9:41 pm #245979ALBKeymasterHere’s something relevant on 19th century German materialism, giving some context to the intellectual world that Marx and Engels (and Dietzgen} moved in:
https://www.3-16am.co.uk/articles/on-german-materialism
This too is interesting showing that science confirms that the brain works to filter and interpret what the senses perceive (in this case, the eye):
It doesn’t make sense to call this “idealist” as it sees the brain and mind as part of material reality, not something separate from and outside it.
August 19, 2023 at 9:43 pm #245980Thomas_MoreParticipantNo, it isn’t idealist.
August 20, 2023 at 10:20 am #245981ALBKeymasterTell that to the author of that article that accuses Marx of “epistemological idealism”.
August 20, 2023 at 11:11 am #245982Thomas_MoreParticipantTribal people are shown Carl Sagan video.
And yet in the US and UK, where we have all this technology, we are plagued with oafs!
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August 20, 2023 at 12:02 pm #245984Thomas_MoreParticipantGibbon on Christianity.
In his monumental work, Edward Gibbon, in his chapters on Christianity, has to pay lip-service to the “truth” of the mythology, yet his brilliant sarcasm throughout, but thinly veiled, makes reading him a real pleasure.
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